Beneficiaries

The beneficiaries for the 2009 Chakravarty Cup are:

 

Inspiring young people to aim higher

 Royal Patron:  HRH Prince William of Wales

 

We believe that every young person should have an equal chance to succeed in life; yet each year 35,000 leave school without a single qualification.  Young people without qualifications end up in low paid jobs, become long term unemployed, or worse.  This is not the future we want for Britain’s young people.

 

Skill Force is a national charity working to inspire young people and prevent them from getting needlessly left behind in education.  Our experience shows that the majority of young people joining Skill Force have given up on education and on themselves.  By reaching them while they are still in school, Skill Force encourages and motivates them to reach their potential. 

 

The majority of our Instructors are ex-service, making Skill Force distinct from other youth charities.  Using their world class training, skills and life experience, our Instructors act as positive role models, something often lacking in young peoples’ lives.  Our Instructors help young people by giving them the confidence to achieve, both within and outside school, by inspiring an outlook that says “I can”. 

 

Our track record is impressive. Since we began in 2000, over 35,000 young people have completed a Skill Force programme.  We have gained unprecedented results with 93% of our students gaining at least one qualification, and many gaining several.  Of those young people who entitled to free school meals (a common indicator of living in a low income household) 60% from Skill Force go on to Further Education compared with 6% from mainstream education: a ten-fold improvement.

 

For more information about Skill Force, please visit our stand, or our website www.skillforce.org

 

Skill Force Development, Registered Charity No.1105022

Sentebale

 

Sentebale’s mission is to help to transform the lives of Lesotho's orphans and vulnerable children, to empower them to reach their full potential.  Founded by Prince Harry and Lesotho’s Prince Seeiso, Sentebale works with grass roots community based organisations to deliver long term help and support to Lesotho’s children. 

 

Lesotho is a unique and beautiful country, but with extreme poverty and the third highest rate of HIV/AIDS in the world, it is a country in desperate need of help.  Of Lesotho’s population of 1.8million, it is estimated there are at least 400,000 orphans with around 3% of the population dying every year.  Life expectancy is an average of just 35 years.  The people of Lesotho are fighting for survival against the HIV/AIDS pandemic ravaging the country and extreme poverty. 

 

Sentebale is committed to identifying, supporting and empowering Lesotho’s most vulnerable children, helping them to transform their own lives, and giving them a leg up to escape the poverty trap. Our priority is to reach those not normally reached by existing aid organisations – the most vulnerable children.  We are helping the orphans, abused, disabled, ill, deprived children and herd boys.    

 

Working in collaboration with local organisations to develop the capacity of the Basotho community, we take direct action to deliver long term and sustainable solutions to the problems facing these most vulnerable children. 

 

Please help us to help these children by supporting us in our work in Lesotho.  To find out more please visit the Sentebale stand or go to our website www.sentebale.org